Architecture Task Lead

• This position is contingent upon contract award**
  
  
  

The principal level enterprise architect acts as the trusted advisor to top management in regard to aligning the portfolio to strategic goals, vision and mission.

• Produces and maintains an enterprise architecture vision.
• Produces and maintains enterprise architecture principles and organizational standards.
• Tracks Inventories of major organizational assets and features, both current and target (aka "operating model").
• Tracks relationships between major organizational assets (aka "operating model")
• Produces and maintains the "transition plan" aka roadmap or modernization roadmap or transformation plan
• Directs, supervises or mentors others in performing enterprise architecture activities.
• Maintain a repository of these items.
• Support portfolio management of transformation programs and strategic planning, tying these together.
• Participates in or leads related governance activities.
• Participates in or leads related architecture maturity management activities, and maintains the enterprise architecture framework(s).
• Participates in segment (line of business) and solutions architecture where needed.
• Analyzes current strategy, plans, transformational investments, business plans, portfolio and architectural information to determine if activities comprehensively support strategy and/or mission (alignment), and propose improvements.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Education: Master's Degree in enterprise architecture, or multiple certificates in enterprise architecture. An MBA with a separate technical degree can substitute for this requirement.

Clearance: Must have and maintain an active DoD Secret clearance.

Experience: Broad knowledge of:

• History and background of enterprise architecture
• Research evolution and potential future of enterprise architecture.
• Theory and concepts of enterprise architecture (in both technology and management).
• Frameworks.
• Related Activities (especially governance and maturity management).
• Understands the current architectural tools, industry standards and development techniques and have demonstrated experience in producing architectural models in these tools
• SysML
• DoDAF
  
  
  

Deep knowledge of at least one of the following, and a working knowledge of the remaining areas:

• Business (operational) architecture, especially business process modeling.
• Data architecture
• Application architecture (at lower levels of detail this is software architecture)
• Infrastructure & technology architecture
• Security architecture
• Service taxonomies
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, DoD Primitives conformance class
• Ontology development